TORONTO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index crept
above 11,900 points on Wednesday afternoon, as financial and
energy stocks gained, but investors took little comfort given
the absence of major impetus from the United States or China.

Heavyweight financial stocks were the biggest advancers, but
traders said overall volume was thin.

"There is so much uncertainty out there," said Sal Masionis,
a stockbroker at Brant Securities who noted some defensive
movement towards dividend-paying stocks such as telecom company
Telus.

"America is getting over the proverbial wall of worry.
Canadians are always more timid," he said.

"The economic stuff coming out of the States, that may have
an effect, but we are in the summer doldrums and there is not a
lot going on," said John Kinsey, a portfolio manager at Caldwell
Securities, who added that in the absence of unexpected news,
Canadian equities were unlikely to make dramatic moves in either
direction through August.
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